Perfect Dark map pack soon

By Tom Bramwell Published 5 June, 2006

Dash update overdue too.

It's been a week of near-things for followers of Xbox 360 Marketplace - with a promised dashboard update still not quite out and a map pack for Perfect Dark Zero that Microsoft US emailed about on Friday not quite there either.

On the latter, according to Xbox Live director Larry Hryb, better known as Major Nelson, "You can stop looking on Marketplace, because the map pack is not there. Apparently the email went out before the maps were ready."

When the pack does come out, it'll cost 500 Microsoft points, and will include four maps - Trench, Rooftops, Gas Plant and Plaza. If you fancy a taste, Plaza is actually included in the recently released Perfect Dark Zero demo.

Meanwhile, Hryb's latest podcast includes a bit on the promised dashboard update, which is due to add background-downloading among other things. Dubbed "The one about why it's not out yet", Hryb offers an "update on the update". "I don't have a date yet," he says, trailing the podcast, "but I'll update you as to when I may have more information about it."

As of this morning, we still can't get hold of either - but will let you know when we can, obviously.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • THATinkjar #1 6 years ago

    Didn't they announce the update's imminent arrival, like, a month ago? Two updates a year is fine by me, as long as - you know - they actually release them.

  • S.J.Rogers #2 6 years ago

    Agreed..!

  • Sko #3 6 years ago

    500 points? What's that in real money?

  • #4 6 years ago

    Too much.

  • Darren #5 6 years ago

    Why don't they announce these things when they DO have a DEFINITE date instead of getting people excited about them and then having to wait weeks for them. Seems stupid to me... :?

  • Kelduum #6 6 years ago

    500 points? What's that in real money?

    Theres about 120 points to the pound, so thats about £4.16ish in Proper Money(TM).

  • gizmo #7 6 years ago

    I think that proportionally, that is too much for 4 multiplayer maps.

    If you think about your average game, take into account the experience itself, the mechanics, then the single player element, an average multiplayer game used to have a fair few maps (10+) but this number seems to be going down as they to take advantage of these micro transactions. £2 would be about right.

    If held back bolt ons become the norm, I'm back to the PC pretty sharpish..

  • reality_cheque #8 6 years ago

    @gizmo: Not that i think for a second that this will happen, but if it did, do you really think it'll be any different for PC users?

  • Mr_Brown #9 6 years ago

    Pff... Perfect Dark Map pack should have all the originals in there. That would make me buy the game. Facility, Temple, Complex to name a few would be on the wish list! Buck your ideas up Rare.

  • dk_rare #10 6 years ago

    We have to pay for the maps? What has happened to the gaming world I knew and loved, it seems like you need to pay to maintain games these days. This map pack is 4 pound. Say another 3 map packs come out in PDOs live, that is 16 pound so far. A weapons pack, add another 2 pounds, characters pack another 3 pound and armor for the Perfect Dark horse at 4 pound you are looking at an extra 25 pound. Of course I am exagerating, but my point is made.

    If they put on the cover how much you will be paying all for the extras then it will be all good in my books. Like a game might say on the cover "game costs 40 quid, download content is free" or "game costs 40 quid, total predicted download cost is another 27 pound"... then you will have a fair idea of what you are paying.

    Pisses me off. It is like paying money for harvested gold in WoW, and people HATE those gold farmers. Well in my eyes market place is the new gold farmer.

  • Kuma #11 6 years ago

    Pound a map seems reasonable price to me for a game i still play and enjoy on Live. It just gives me more of what i like :-)